HEY, ANXIETY (Spoken Words)

I opened my phone to see the outside world.

This is my window, the small gap in the wall to peek the goings-on, from this home where we’re like alone.

Alone in four walls, a ceiling and a floor; my workstation, playground and home.

We’re locked up, and the boredom is on.

 

Suddenly, the world has changed and we’re not used to it.

Me, you, them, we’re around everywhere, sad and weep.

And so on my newsfeed I see the timely story.

Many people today are going through anxiety; because of fear, difficulty and uncertainty; because of boredom and feeling of solitary; because of this pandemic that plagued everybody.

 

Thump-thump, thump-thump, thump-thump.

The heart beats so fast and you can’t unplug.

You feel afraid of tomorrow, of the things around you.

What if you run out of money or food? What about your family and friends too?

All these things are coming, circling, popping

again, and again, and again, and again.

 

Thump-thump, thump-thump, thump-thump.

The heart beats so fast and you can’t unplug

 You feel it going high and fast, will it blast, will you go crazy at last?

And simply don’t know how to control your heart.

You want to be alone or you want to cry, or maybe you want escape to try.

There is only one thing I should say not to go by.

That is never give-up everything and say good bye.

Because you are not alone, and never be alone.

Because we are here to hold on our compassion.

 

Cry, roar and shout; there is nothing wrong doing that.

If you feel you don’t feel okay, then it is okay to not be okay.

This is just for today; and tomorrow is a morning sunny day.

 

The world is healing, and so your feeling.

Certainly this will pass, soon this has ending and you’ll be rewarding.

Prayer is more than enough.

When it is done, when our usual life has back, we who survived in this catastrophe, we’ll be the living testament of being tough.

Then was anxiety and now you can laugh.

 

SINIGANG NA MANOK (Chicken in Sour Broth)

I told to myself if ever I made vlog about cooking, I want it first to be my best recipe and what is better than doing what you can do best by doing what you know.  So I chose to cook my favorite:  Sinigang.  It is  Filipino dish in sour soup, can be from tamarind, guava, green mango, cotton fruits, bilimbi, and sometimes soursop, with lots of vegetables such as string beans, radish, lady's finger, eggplant, swamp cabbage, tomatoe, taro, and chili, sometimes with winged beans.  Sinigang can be beef, pork, fish, shrimp and chicken.  Although chicken is unpopular Sinigang because chicken is best for Tinola or Nilaga (stewed) but we have this dish called Sinampalukang Manok which is cooked with young leaves of tamarind and the vegetables are almost the same, so it makes sense to cook Sinigang na Manok.  My father's cooking inspired me and Sinigang na Baboy (portk) is my first expertise.

(Click below for the video)

Here is the basic recipe of Sinigang (using Chicken as the main meat)

Chicken thighs

Tomato

Radish

Lady's finger

String beans

Water spinach

Chili

Sour savory (using in this video is the ready to use tamarind extract)

Procedure:

1.Bring to boil the chicken 

2.Put the tomato and chili

3.Next are the radish,string beans and lady's fingers.

4.Pour the sour savory.

4.Add some fish sauce.

5.Let it boil for few minutes.

6.Put the water spinach, covert it and turn off the heat.

7.And lastly, just eat right.